Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 6

Then he would cry, but what nobody knows nobody cares for; so he would cry till he was tired, and then fall asleep; and while we are asleep we can feel neither hunger nor thirst.

Who acts: mouth, nobody, we · What happens: cry, know, care, be, fall, feel · To what, where: hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouth, nobody, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cry	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 knows	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 knows	obj
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	parataxis
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 cares	nsubj
11	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 knows	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 cares	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cry	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 cry	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cry	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cry	aux
17	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 tired	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cry	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 fall	advmod
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cry	advcl
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fall	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 feel	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 feel	cc
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 asleep	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 asleep	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 asleep	cop
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feel	advcl
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 feel	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 feel	aux
35	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
36	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	37 hunger	det
37	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feel	obj
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	39 thirst	cc
39	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hunger	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	mouth		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	nobody				tree rules
3	care	present	nobody				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cry speech: express	would	mouth				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	mouth			tired property	tree rules
6	fall	infinitive	mouth not said here		then	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present	we			asleep property	tree rules
8	feel	can	we	neither hunger nor thirst			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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